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" 'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn. "

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" In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer. "

" Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile. "

" Sometimes when you hire people who have to pass a Mr. Congeniality test, you end up losing some of the non-conformists who will give you different views and perspectives. "

" I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful. "

" One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn't deal with college. "

" In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake. "

" Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. "

" The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks. "

" I've always been a tech-head. "

" I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really hard technology. It's probably one of the only colour-vector screens that was used in the computer graphics field at that time. "

" I'd love to design a school. "

" People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets. "

" The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity. "

" Do I really want to do a mobile game that's one of 300,000, where discoverability is everything? You really have to have a little more sizzle on the steak. I would rather be one of 100 apps for Google Glass than one of 300,000 for iOS and Android. "

" The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot. "

" You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind. "

" Women were very, very good at 'Pong'. It was part of the dating scene. The number of people who told me they met their wife or husband playing 'Pong' was huge. They were shoulder to shoulder, talking and playing. It was body contact and verbal contact. "

" Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new. "

" A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions. "

" Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place. "

" I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture. "

" My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise. "

" Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.' "

" I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it. "

" I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots. "

" I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool. "

" Young adults love to play games and they're thirsty for social interaction, but a lot of bar and restaurant experiences are quite unsatisfactory on the social level. What young people need is a place that has the feel of an unhosted party where they find themselves interacting with like-minded strangers. "

" There are a lot of things about having money that are perceived to be cool but that aren't. Maybe if you're a CEO jerk who likes going coast to coast by himself in a G4, then that's fine. But that's not me. And it never will be. "

" We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society. "

" Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else. "